Introduction

Blender provides a variety of tools for editing meshes. These are tools used to add, duplicate, move and delete elements.

These are available through the Mesh Tools panel in the Tool Shelf, the Mesh menu in the 3D View header, and context menus in the 3D View, as well as individual shortcut keys.

Note

All the “transform precision/snap” keys Ctrl and/or Shift work also for all these advanced operations… However, most of them do not have axis locking possibilities, and some of them do not take into account pivot point and/or transform orientation either.

These transform tools are available in the Transform section of the Mesh menu in the header. Note that, some of these can also be used on other editable objects, like curves, surfaces, and lattices.

Accessing Mesh Tools

The mesh tools are found in various places, and available through shortcuts as well.

Mesh Tools Shelf

When you select a mesh and Tab into edit mode, the Tool Shelf changes from Object Tools to Mesh Tools. These are only some of the mesh editing tools.

Menus

The Mesh menu is located in the header. Some of the menus can be accessed with shortcuts:

• Ctrl-F brings up the Face tool menu
• Ctrl-E brings up the Edge tool menu
• Ctrl-V brings up the Vertex tool menu